Rapist who met victim on app is jailed for five years

Martin Sherlock refused to stop having sex with a woman he met through BadooCOURTPIX

A man has been jailed for five years for raping a woman he met on an online dating app after he was caught during a sting operation by gardaí.

When Martin Sherlock, 30, from Co Meath, met the woman after arranging a date online, she told him that they could not have sex without a condom. She said that she started to feel uncomfortable during sex and he refused to stop when she said “no”. She later realised that he had ejaculated inside her.

Eilis Brennan, BL, for the prosecution, told the Central Criminal Court that the key issue in the case was that the victim had stated that she did not want to have sex without a condom.

The woman said she thought Badoo,…

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